Rating: 9/10 Release: 23 February 2019 Label: Independent The first thing to get your attention with any new Metsatöll release is the stunning and distinctive artwork and Katk Kutsariks (apparently Estonian for Plague Coachman) doesn’t disappoint with its oddly compelling and creepy cover. Metsatöll are not your “average” Folk Metal … Continue reading →
By: Stuart Rating : 9/10 Release: 5 April 2019 Label: Nuclear Blast With Ategnatos, their first “proper” album since 2014’s Origins, Swiss Celtic Folk Metallers, Eluveitie underscore once again why they are one of the best bands in the Folk Metal scene today. It retains enough of the instantly recognizable … Continue reading →
Rating: 8/10 Release: 19 February 2019 Label: Heavy Metal Rock / Trollzorn Brazilian Folk Metallers Tuatha De Danann have been working on a new EP since at least last year. Many readers may have already seen their lyric videos for “Your Wall Shall Fall”, and the eponymous “Tribe of Witching … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 5 March 2019 Label: SoundsAge Productions More than 2.500 kilometres between Vigo, Spain and Sopron, Hungary. And yet, listening to Mileth, Dalriada is always there. Clean female vocals, male vocals reaching from deep grunts to high shrieks. Plenty of folk instruments, predominantly violin and bouzouki. Midtempo parts … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.5/10 Release: 16 February 2019 Label: Independent I ran across Norvhar on Bandcamp a while back and was surprised at a little bit of history before even their first release. Originally called Harmoniks, this Swiss outfit has been around for almost 15 years in one form or another and … Continue reading →
Rating: 8.8/10 Release: 8 March 2019 Label: Independent The Greenland Whalefishers have a long history of great music. Hailing from Norway they have been carrying the torch lit by the Pogues for decades. This new disc, ”Based on a True Story”, continues with some ventures into other territory. The britpunk … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: 8 March 2019 Label: Deaf Shepherd Recordings March brings some great Celtic punk every year and this year is no different. Fiddlers Green will release “Heyday” on March 8 and it is a great album. Self proclaimed as Irish speedpunk this legendary band has 13 studio albums … Continue reading →
Rating: 9.2/10 Release: 18 January 2019 Label: NoiseArt Records If it was a secret before, it certainly shouldn’t be now, TrollfesT deeply embodies my alter ego #trollpy. So of course, I leaped at the opportunity to review their latest homage onto our lot. Norwegian Fairytales is their (holy crap) eighth … Continue reading →
Rating: 7.5/10 Release: 18 January 2019 Label: Massacre Records 2019 may be known as a year with band reforming after long periods of inactivity….case in point the recent Pagan Reign album after 12 years and now the 3rd full length from Belgium’s Lemuria. Entitled “The Hysterical Hunt”, the album is … Continue reading →
Rating: 9/10 Release: March 2019 Label: PRC Music There are times when the “job” here at the site is incredibly easy, especially a reissue of an album I have heard plenty o’ times before. My friends in NJ’s Windfaerer have their killer release “Solar” being reissued this March via PRC … Continue reading →
